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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 26430
Receipt for payment in money in place of wheat TM 26430ThebenI
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A fragmentary ostracon receipt from Thebes recording a payment of four drachmas in debased coin by someone connected with Phaeris, made in cash instead of wheat. It dates to the 1st century AD and is dated to the month Pauni.
In English machine translation
[…] son of (?) Phaeris, for the price of wheat […]
[…] four drachmas, total 4 drachmas in dirty (debased) coin […]
[…] of the lord, Pauni 30 (?). Her[…]
"Dirty" drachmas (rhyparai) are debased silver coins of lower value. "Price of wheat" indicates adaeratio, payment in money instead of grain; the day number is garbled in the edition and may be 30.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Adaeratio of Wheat). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.